Anna Karenina, Part 8, Chapter 14 summary
Part 8, Chapter 14 of 239 · 7 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 14, Levin returns to his family expecting his new spiritual peace to transform his relationships, but irritation and awkwardness quickly return. Alone among his beehives, he recognizes that these everyday troubles disturb his mood without destroying the inner strength he now feels.
What happens
- Ivan brings news of visitors, and Levin rides home imagining warmer relations with his family, guests, and servants.
- Levin snaps at Ivan over the reins and realizes that his new outlook does not immediately remove old habits.
- Grisha and Tanya meet him, and he recognizes their unfamiliar visitor as Katavasov.
- Levin feels uneasy about Kitty taking Mitya into the woods, remains awkward with Sergey Ivanovitch, and stops a philosophical discussion with Katavasov.
- He seats the visitors near the bee-house and goes to fetch food.
- Alone among the hives, Levin decides that ordinary troubles cloud his spiritual peace but leave its strength intact.
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